INSECT INTRUDERS. 



in the mud wall and escapes from the 

 cell. 



Some of the Fossorial parasitic Wasps, 

 instead of storing their cells with cater- 

 pillars, and the wasps which act in this 

 way are most useful friends to the 

 gardener, fill the cell half full with tiny 

 grey spiders, as many as 20 of these 

 latter being placed in the cell in a para- 

 lytic condition to serve as food for the 

 wasp grubs when they hatch out from the 

 eggs laid. 



Allusion must be made to another 

 Wasp, perhaps the best known of all 

 verandah intruders in his season, which is 

 from early July to late November in 

 Northern India. I mean the long-legged 

 yellow (Polistes) wasp which swarms 

 at times in startling numbers in our 

 verandahs and rooms and appears to be 

 everywhere. He is a honey eater as all who 

 have ever inspected his cells will know. 



This wasp is the architect of those 

 wonderful little pendant pyramidal combs 

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